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Uptime Intelligence Staff
8 May 2019
Li-ion in the data center: A burning issue?

An Uptime Institute Network member and a battery vendor wanted to know: Can you have lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in a Tier IV-Certified data center? The member noted Li-ion fires are very difficult to extinguish, citing the FM Global…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
1 May 2019
Buying cloud at scale: Lessons from Lyft and Uber

When the ride-hailing company Lyft (a competitor to Uber) filed for its IPO (initial public offering) in March, one figure attracted particular attention in the mission-critical infrastructure industry: Lyft will pay Amazon Web Services (AWS) around…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
24 Apr 2019
Is it too late? Proposed battery standard worries data center industry

A furious — but late — response to the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA’s) proposed standard 855, Standard for the Installation of Stationary Energy Storage, should put the whole data center industry on notice that it needs to increase…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
23 Apr 2019
Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2019

Are data centers getting more efficient? How are outages changing? Is rack density rising at last? What proportion of workloads run in the cloud? Which new architectures are being adopted?

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Andy Lawrence
17 Apr 2019
Recover heat, re-charge power

Recently I attended the Data Center Dynamics (DCD) Smart Energy conference in Stockholm. During a panel discussion on energy, data centers and innovation, David Hall (Senior Director of Technology Innovation for Equinix) made two observations,…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
11 Apr 2019
Renewed pressure for renewables

In a recent presentation at the Energy Smart conference in Stockholm, Gary Cook, the Greenpeace activist who has tracked data center carbon emissions for a decade, showed a slide of logos, indicating companies that have made a commitment to use 100…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
3 Apr 2019
Data center AI creates new risks

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in data centers to drive up efficiencies and drive down risks and costs. But it also creates new types of risks. This is one of the findings from Uptime Intelligence research report 25, Very smart data…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
26 Mar 2019
Very smart data centers: How artificial intelligence will power operational decisions

The increasing adoption of AI signals the beginning of a major shift in how data centers will be managed and operated. This Uptime Institute Intelligence report overviews data center AI technology and its requirements, use cases, risks and costs.

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
21 Mar 2019
For most, virtualization reduces data center capacity demand more than anything else

The public cloud is dampening demand for data center capacity and leading to closures, consolidation and a big rethink on data center ownership. Right? Not quite, according to the latest Uptime Intelligence research. In enterprise and…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
15 Mar 2019
The anticipated data center skills shortage is here now

Sometimes it can be hard to get people to talk about their issues — other times, it can be hard to keep them quiet. A recent Uptime Institute Network member’s meeting began as an open discussion but was soon dominated by one issue: staffing. 

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
8 Mar 2019
The business case for Smart Energy is still in the making

Smart Energy is getting a lot of airplay in the data center world at present. New or planned products that fall under this broad banner include Energy-as-a-Service uninterruptible power supplies, software-defined power systems, and adaptable…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Andy Lawrence
1 Mar 2019
How to compare the severity of outages?

Avoiding outages is a big concern for any operator or service provider, especially one providing a business-critical service.  But when an outage does occur, the business impact can vary from “barely noticeable” to “huge and expensive.”…

Intelligence Updates 4 min read
Uptime Intelligence Staff
25 Feb 2019
Capacity planning in a Complex, Hybrid World

The adoption of virtualization and software containers, and the use of public cloud have been in full swing for some time. What effect is this having on data center capacity and density? How should operators build this into their demand forecasting…

Briefing Reports 25 min read
Andy Lawrence
22 Jan 2019
Annual outage analysis 2019

This report analyzes the causes and impacts of publicly recorded IT service and data center outages from 2016-2018.

Keynote Reports 40 min read
Andy Lawrence
26 Dec 2018
Smart energy in the data center

Uptime Institute Research looks at smart energy, including its potential for changing mission-critical IT as well as many of the enabling technologies.

Briefing Reports 25 min read